Quotes About Aesthetics

It is more important to have beauty in one's equation than to have them fit experiment

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

Design is everything. Everything!

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Everything is design. Everything!

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.

Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.

I love the way Miriam looks, because it's not based on anything human; she's going for German Expressionism or Kabuki sheet cake.

What did beauty matter, anyway?

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.

La définition du Beau: il est ce qui désespère.

The teacher who does not respect the student's curiosity in its diverse aesthetic, linguistic, and syntactical expressions; who uses irony to put down legitimate questioning (recognizing of course that freedom is not absolute, that it requires of its nature certain limits); who is not respectfully present in the educational experience of the student, transgresses fundamental ethical principles of the human condition.

And he says that everything, absolutely everything, is a question of aesthetics and color. That people aren't really unhappy with you or your government. That the problem is the gray color of your uniforms, such a depressing color, so dull, and it doesn't go with anything. Do you realize that the only color it goes with is red, it's the only way to dress it up, make it look good? What a contradiction.

Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrateWith thine own hues all thou dost shine uponOf human thought or form.

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Another difference," Rob said. "What?" "There's no color on anything they build, no finish or decoration. All the external material is raw." "They're color blind as well." "And immune to esthetics?" "Okay, then. You tell me." "I don't know why, I'm just pointing it out. Their culture has no art." "Have you seen the crap flooding the unisphere these days?